Gospel—A. Coleman
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Hospital hymn sheet #15 in your gospel hymn sheet.
I like to start.
A gospel meeting with this hymn because tonight with the Lords health I want to blow the gospel trumpet.
I want to blow the gospel trumpet.
And this says, O blessed gospel sound, yet there is room. Now the story behind this song is probably you. Most of you know this story is about a man that was invited to a gospel meeting.
And didn't want to come, and that's quite often the case is that they don't want to come.
And upon thinking about a little more, he decided, well, maybe I'll come.
Baby, I'll come. And so this man came to the Gospel meeting room and the place was full. It was full.
And.
Being determined and thinking that there must be something here because it's full.
He climbed up the front.
Somehow to the top window.
And he opened the window.
And he heard this song, he heard this, these words.
Get there is room.
And they're wonderful. And tonight we can say this, Yet there is room. After lost and in your sins. Tonight you can come, because yet there is room. And so let's think this.
Is.
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We pray of Joel.
You know, the minor prophets have some good gospel verses in them too, but the verse that I have in mind, it doesn't really refer to the gospel. It refers to a coming day. But I'd like to translate it into the gospel if I have the Lord's mind in doing so, and I think I have.
First of all.
Chapter 3.
Verse 14. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision.
In the valley of decision.
And you're going on this day without Christ.
Crowds, people, cars, trains, planes, going somewhere, doing something. So much to do the rush.
Of the everyday living.
Multitudes, Multitudes in the valley of decision.
We have a street corner in Vancouver that I go to quite often and there's multitudes, multitudes right on that very corner.
But I'd hate to tell you what they look like and where they come from and what they're doing.
They'll receive the gospel.
But they're all there.
Sad, sad cases. Multitudes of them.
Turn to Chapter 2.
Joel Chapter 2.
Sorry.
Blow ye the trumpet.
In Zion, sound and alarm in my holy mountain.
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord cometh.
For it is nigh at hand, You know, this is Speaking of a coming day. The Lord is coming for his own, to bring his church home to himself. That's not his coming here that we have here. This is when he's coming back to this earth.
And he's going to stir his rights over this earth and put down all his enemies.
And he's going to restore Israel to himself.
And then he's going to bring in that millennial 1000 ring, the millennial thousand year reign of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe this is the day of the Lord.
But this says blow the trumpet, blow the trumpet.
The gospel trumpet And what is the gospel? For I declare unto you the gospel, how that Christ?
I guess I'm getting nervous.
I.
Prague.
How that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. That's beautiful, isn't it? The gospel? How about John 316 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. How about Matthew 1128? Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. That's the gospel.
Coming from a loving heart of God, God beseeching sinners to come to him tonight, the Gospel.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. That's the gospel.
He's seeking you tonight if you're still lost in your sins.
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You know, this afternoon as I was listening in the reading meeting, I had my hearing aids on and I had them cranked up.
And I could hear the crosswalk paper around me, and there were little girls around me and they were writing on their paper and.
And I suppose they were writing things and playing with their paper and coloring and that. Now, how many of you got a paper in front of you right now? Well, just get that pencil out. And I want you to do something for me. I want you to write saved. Just write that word saved.
You know, my son and I were coming home from Everett, WA and we were on the highway and we were going along the highway. I guess this guy was registering about 65 miles an hour and.
All of a sudden, ah, henna this.
What's that, Stan?
Oh, 65 miles an hour and we're heading straight for them. You know what it was?
It was a duck.
With maybe a dozen ducklings and we were headed straight for them.
At 65 miles an hour.
A quick look in the rearview mirror and behind me and I shudder to think what was going to happen.
That very fortunately we turned right over and we missed them all. But I was impressed with that duck, that she had those little ducklings all around her right tight and she was hidden for that shoulder of the road and she made it. She made it.
Turn to Matthew chapter.
24.
How often would I have gathered you as a hind? Oh yeah, Matthew 23. I'm sorry. Verse 37. O Jerusalem. Jerusalem, all this is the Lord.
Thou that kills the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together?
Even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not.
Think of those words and you would not.
But those little chicks made it across the highway because they were right close to that mother hand and that mother hens. She had her head and her beak.
Was just pointed forward.
And they were so close and they were so safe. Now how about you? How about you?
Are you going to be like this here and this first? And they would not. They would not. I don't want it. You know what? I was a little boy. It was my case. I would not. I would not. I would not. I was a young man before I got saved. But thank God the Lord saved me.
And you would not.
Have you got that word written down now? Saved.
OK, now write these words in front of it. Are you really?
Are you really?
Are you really?
Are you sure of your salvation? Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Savior? These things have I written unto you that believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that He has eternal life. God wants us to be sure of our salvation. He wants us to know.
You know, Philip could say to the Lord, Lord, we don't know the way. We don't know the way.
You know what the Lord could say, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. There's only ways, only through a person, a glorious person, God's beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Savior of sinners. It says in Acts 1338. Be it known unto you men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sin. You want your sins forgiven tonight.
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Do you want your sins forgiven tonight? You know it says in that in John 637. Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. You'll never turn your side.
A wonderful Savior of glorious Savior who's willing and just wants to save lost sinners. Tonight I'm amazed at the grace of God, at the long-suffering of God, how He delights to save souls. He delights to save souls. His arms are outstretched to this world tonight.
Just as it was that day many years ago when the Lord was here in this earth.
And he could say in John 737, If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. Let him come to me and drink. Are you thirsty tonight?
Long ago I was thirsty for this world.
I was thirsty for this world. I wanted this world. I wanted everything of this world.
And I found out that this world couldn't satisfy me.
I came home with a bad breath. I came home with a big head. I came home to parents that were.
Praying for me day by day that this rebellious son of theirs would get saved.
Thank God for mothers. Thank God for fathers.
Thank God for Christian, Christian parents. Wonderful.
How blessed.
And his arms are outstretched to you, to the little children. He says, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not. For such as the Kingdom of heaven do you and I everyone here, whosoever will may come.
He's inviting souls to come to him tonight, yet there is room. There is room still tonight and still the gospel goes out. 2000 years that this blessed gospel has been going out and God has been saving precious souls. But some guests will be the last.
Tomorrow might be too late for you.
Will it be too late for you, dear friend, tonight if you're lost, if you're still without the Savior of sinners?
You're in an awful predicament.
You're toying with the eternal destiny of your soul.
Dear young boys, young girls, sitting beside your mother and father.
Have you ever come to the Lord Jesus and said, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight?
Have you ever thanked the Lord Jesus for dying in Calvary's cross for you? That's what he wants to hear.
If I could use that verse, let me hear thy voice, for sweet as thy voice.
He wants to hear your voice. He wants to hear your cry.
I like that verse in Psalm 5015. I believe that's the 9/11 call to heaven.
Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
And that's a wonderful God that is approachable and wants to be approached.
And you can come tonight, knowing that he will receive you. This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them. Beautiful in him. Beautiful. What a Savior, longing and waiting for you to come.
Are you going to turn the Savior aside tonight? Say no some other day.
The song that I sometimes think about as this. I gave my life for thee. My precious blood I shed.
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I suffered much for thee.
Can't remember all the lines.
I gave my life for thee.
What hast thou given to me? What have you given to Him? He wants the fruit of your lips, giving thanks to his name. Oh friend, tonight come to the Lord Jesus before it's forever too late. There might not be another gospel meeting tomorrow night.
The Lord Jesus would come and be too late. Think of that. Someone left in their seat to face a lost eternity forever.
Solemn thought, dear one, tonight, solemn thought.
That verse in that Joel, if we could go back to it.
Joel chapter 2 and verse one. Blow ye the trumpet in Zion. Oh, I like to, I just like to say this about this verse. Blow the gospel trumpet in Des Moines, IA. Blow the gospel trumpet in Illinois. Blow the gospel trumpet in the United States.
Sounded forth all over this world, blow that trumpet. All that wonderful story about the Lord Jesus, how he came into this world and went to Calvary Cross and died. For the life of you and I and Calvary's cross, blow that trumpet. Tell that story wherever you are. Found it out all over the land. Glorious, glorious message. Hallelujah. What a savior, what a savior.
Blow.
That trumpet in Zion, sound and alarm. Why the sound and alarm? Because of coming judgment. And is coming upon the land. Coming judgment is coming, is coming.
Let all the let all the inhabitants of the land tremble. Couldn't we just say, let all the inhabitants of the land?
Repent. Repent.
It says in Acts 17 verse 31, God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent, because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge this world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained. Oh, you know he wants you to repent of your sins, to be sorry for your sins. You know you have sinned against God. Those sins have separated you from a holy God.
And it says in Romans 323, you've heard it over and over again. All have seemed to come short of the glory of God. Oh, but you know, there's a verse that goes along with that. And this first John one and seven, the blood of Jesus Christ, God Son, cleanseth us from all sin. All my sins, thank God, are gone, washed in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Come now, let us reason together. Set the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, though they be red like Crimson.
Shall be as woe. Oh, he says, Come now, let us reason together. Let us. I like to think of it this way, reason together. He does the talking, I do the listening.
You know, many, many a man does argues it out with God. No, Listen to what God is saying to you. Listen to the word of God. It saves. It's a wonderful book that we have opened before us.
Yeah, yeah, there's, there's a, there's a brother in Newfoundland that I'm going to see pretty soon and he picked up the word of God. He was given the word of God.
And God saved his soul.
And there was another man that picked up the word of God in Newfoundland, and God saved his soul too.
It's the word of God.
Beautiful word of God. There's words of life in this precious book. Oh, take it up and read it. How precious it is.
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Luke Chapter 7.
Verse 32.
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace and calling one to another and saying, we've piped unto you and you have not danced. We have mourned to you and you have not wept. Oh, what is this? You know the gospel coming to you here tonight hasn't been any response to from you any response at all. Are you going to just say this is just another meeting?
We come to a conference here with mom and dad or whoever. It's just another meeting. No response.
The gospel trumpet is being sounded and there's these children like that sitting in the marketplace and the pipe and you haven't danced.
No response to the white, joyful news of the gospel.
We have mourned unto you.
And ye have not wept all that there would be weeping tonight for one year tonight.
That came to Christ as a guilty, lost Sinner.
That there would be one here tonight that would come to Christ as a guilty, lost Sinner.
We have mourned to you and he have not left no response whatsoever.
Turn to Mark Chapter 8.
Verse 18 having eyes no, I'll go. Verse 17 And when Jesus knew it, he said unto them, Why reason He because you have no bread, proceed not ye neither understand have ye your heart get hardened? Having eyes see not.
Having ears hear ye not. And do ye not remember you have eyes?
Each one of us have eyes, and what are we looking at? The precious word of God. These are wonderful words of life.
Eyes to see the precious word of God. These two in Newfoundland, they use their eyes. They saw the precious word of God, and God save their souls.
Wonderful, isn't it?
Happy New Years and hear you not. Oh, there's a problem there I can't hear properly.
It's all mixed up in there.
But you know, I believe that there's a lot of people that are like that, too. You talk to them and give you them, give them the gospel to them, and it's just like talking to a blank wall. You're not listening to me.
That was the case with this person here.
When I was a young fella.
Gal, you're not listening to me. And my mother would scold me again and again, and I just keep on doing the same old things over and over again.
And I had to get canned for some of the things I did, you know?
He was looking after the welfare of my soul and I thank God for her. She's now 96.
And yet I kept on on my course.
One day my dad caught me smoking in the Bush and I got really tan, good and proper.
I couldn't sit down for a week.
But did that stop me from smoking? I kept on going.
You see, there's something to this, you know, it says none but Christ can satisfy.
He satisfies along his soul.
And all those things that I did when I was young.
They never satisfied me.
Don't try them. Don't try them. Take it from a person that did. Don't try the world. The world has nothing to give you down to the gutter and leave you there.
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That's what the enemy of your souls will do.
Having eyes see, not having ears hear ye not, And do ye not remember you got a memory?
How about Ecclesiastes 1212 and one Did you ever memorize that in Sunday school? What is it? Do you remember?
Do you know what the first word says? It says remember, Remember what? Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Oh, what's that saying? The time to come to Christ is when you're in your youth, when you're young.
I didn't even think about that.
Those were wasted years, wasted years. And do ye not remember? Have you? Your heart get hardened?
Is that heart of yours hardened?
My brother-in-law has a hard heart. You know the prayer that has gone up for that dear man over and over and over and over again.
And he's not saved.
And he hates to come to a gospel meeting. He hates it.
And each time he is more or less dragged.
Or bargained with to come to a gospel.
I asked my sister. Well, was there any reaction? No.
Why did you put me right next to the speaker?
Why, He's a miserable man, actually, you know.
He has his garage just jam packed full of things that I love to have.
I'd love to have a garage that I could work on cars like he could.
And you know, he's got everything.
But I he needs to find out that none but Christ can satisfy.
There's love and life and lasting joy. Lord Jesus found in thee. It's found in Christ alone. This world can't give it to you. No, it can't only Christ. Do you not remember? Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth.
I want to spend time in Luke Chapter 7 where we were just before.
This is a glorious chapter, beloved.
I preached the gospel on this chapter quite a few times and.
Just beautiful to see the Lord.
You know, you come to the very first verse.
Of this chapter, and you find that the Lord in the city of Capernaum. And then you come to the 11Th verse, and you find the Lord in the city of name.
You know, if you look in your math and try and map it out, you figure probably somewhere is around 30 miles. It says when it came to pass the next day after that, that he went into the city of name the next day. Have you ever walked 30 miles in one day? The Lord did 30 miles in one day. Incredible. I've I've walked probably 10-15 miles in one day, but not 30.
You think of those blessed feet.
How they must have been tired. How they must have been sore.
But she may. But he meets. It's perfect timing, isn't it? In the Lord's part. He meets the Sinner. Oh, he delights to meet a Sinner.
And an individual. And here's a woman carrying out her dead son. Oh, what a scene. What sorrow for that woman.
Her only son that would carry on the lifeline of her family. Everything gone that she's weeping.
And the Lord meets her right at the gate of that city.
And he says, woman, weep not. Oh, what a wonderful savior. Do you know this wonderful person? Do you know this wonderful person? The only person that can comfort, the only person that can give life, the only person that can give peace, the only person that can give joy, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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That, oh, that's such a cost to himself. Oh, when you think of what he went through to go to that cross of Calvary, and there in those three dark hours and Calvary's cross when he was made sin for us and bare our sins.
In his own body, in the tree. Oh think of it, your sins and mine on the Lord Jesus Christ in those dark hours on Calvary Cross, he bore the sins of Al Coleman.
Yes he did. Praise be his blessed man and that is the person.
That I'm going to see very shortly, he says. I will come again and receive you unto myself, That where I am, there ye may be also. He's coming soon.
He's coming soon, His Lord is coming us very soon.
And I say that again and again. It may be tonight.
Go to the.
3830.
6th verse.
And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him.
And he went into the Pharisees house and sat down to meet and behold a woman in the city which was a Sinner when she knew that Jesus sat at me.
And the Pharisees hosts an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Oh, this must have been wonderful for the Lord. How refreshing this must have been to the Lord. But this Pharisee, did he have any thought about this to the Lord? A common courtesy to give the Lord.
And many.
Of treating the Lord coldly that way.
Are you treating the Lord coldly? No, No, Some other time. Some other time.
But think of this woman. There she was. She kissed his feet. She wiped his feet.
She stood confession. Have you confessed the Lord Jesus as Savior? He wept. Repentance have you? Have you repented of your sins?
She washed humiliation.
She.
Devotion.
She kissed affection.
She anointed adoration those blessed feet If you just hold your place in in Luke 7 here and go to the.
52nd of Isaiah.
Verse 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him our blessed Lord, that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publishes salvation, that. Seth unto Zion, thy God living those beautiful feet that.
Trod 30 miles.
To meet a woman at the city of Name.
Were anointed by this woman, this woman which was.
A Sinner.
And you think of this Pharisee as he viewed this scene of.
This woman anointing the feet of the Lord, And when the verse 39. And when the Pharisee which had been him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner a woman this is, it toucheth him, for she is a Sinner.
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And Jesus answering, said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he said, Master, say on you see this Thursday, look down on this woman.
Or she's nothing but a Sinner. But you know God can save sinners. This Pharisee wasn't classifying himself as a Sinner.
I'm much better than him, than her.
And Oh no, we have to get right down, right at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There was a certain creditor which had two debtors, the one owed 500 pence and the other fifty, and when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. I have nothing to pay.
I have nothing to pay.
I can't buy my salvation.
You can by your salvation. When I was a young lad and doing all those bad things, I tried.
Something would happen, I'd get the strap or whatever and I'd say, well, I'll get some better, be a little better now and I would try and.
I couldn't get any better.
Not my works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us. For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
Not it works. Not it works. Everything's been done. Everything. The Lord Jesus did it all in Calvary's cross. It is finished.
Let us finish glorious words. Everything been done.
He had nothing to pay. He frankly forgave them both.
Which for them will love him the most. Oh, you think of this woman? She was a Sinner. She knew her condition. And she was at the feet of the Lord. Have you come to the feet of the Lord? He'll bless you. He'll save you tonight. He'll save you. Are you saved?
I'll ask you young children again, Are you really saved? Are you really saved?
If you are really saved, have you told your mom? Have you told your dad? It's a wonderful thing for a dad to have.
Come and tell him that I'm saved.
I got a phone call like that.
Few years ago, grandson.
Poppy unsaved, I know the Lord Jesus as my Savior.
It's nice to hear that, but you know the one who wants you to talk to him is the Lord Jesus Christ. He wants to hear little voices.
Then he returned to the turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, See as thou this woman, I entered into thine house. Thou gave us me no water for my feet, a common courtesy.
But she hath washed my feet with her with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Dog gave us me no kiss. But this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet, my head with oil. Thou didst not annoying.
But this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
Wherefore I say unto you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven her.
Isn't that wonderful forgiveness of sins in whom we have redemption through his blood?
The forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace, beautiful in them.
You can have forgiveness of sins tonight. If you come to the Lord Jesus, He'll forgive you all your sins.
And he said unto her, Thy sins have forgiven thee. And they that sat at meet with him began to see within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins? Also, who is this? Oh, let me ask you this question tonight. Who is this person that we've been talking about tonight?
Who is this person? It's the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners, and this is the most important person that you must do with. Turn to Matthew chapter 27.
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And verse 28 Pilate saith unto him, What shall I do then?
With Jesus, which is called the Christ.
There's a question, there's a question, and I want to leave this as a closing question tonight. And it's a very important question and it's the most important question of your life.
It's not the question as to who your friends are going to be, what your occupation is going to be.
Or all those important things, the kind of car you'll buy or whatever.
The most important question in your life is what shall I do then with Jesus, which is called the Christ?
And you have to answer that question. You have to answer it. And will you do it tonight? Will you answer this question tonight? What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called the Christ? You know what the answer was there in Matthew 27. Away with this man, Crucify him, crucify him. You see, man's heart hasn't changed in 2000 years. No, it hasn't.
It's just the same. This heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately with it. This heart needs a great change.
And only the Lord Jesus Christ can change that sinful heart, make it white as snow, give us, give a new life in Christ, a new light in Christ, a whole new outlook on life, a whole new outlook. What a Savior we got. Do you know this wonderful person?
I'll ask that question again. What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called the Christ? What are you going to do about Him? What are you going to do about Him? Are you going to say some other day?
Some other moment. Have you got that moment? Do you know? Do you know for sure that you got that moment?
Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. I trust that we're going to be here to remember the Lord.
But if the Lord would come, we wouldn't need that remembrance anymore.
But what a remembrance.
To be in his presence, to remember him tomorrow, what a privilege.
What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called the Christ? Are you going to say, Are we with this man, crucify him? We will not have this man to reign over us. Or are you going to say that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved? Oh, let me tell you something from experience.
That he satisfieth the longing soul he does.
What a savior we've got. He's satisfied. The longing soul that sing that song.
Oh Christ, in thee my soul hath found, and found in thee alone the peace, the joy I sought so long, the bliss till now unknown. Now none but Christ can satisfy none other name for the.
There's love and life and lasting joy Lord Jesus found in me.
Thank you #19 somebody started please.
Coming farther, we thank thee again for the Lord Jesus. We thank thee for His precious work on Calvary's cross.